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Trumps First Term Results vs Second Term Expectations

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by citygator, Jan 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM.

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  1. Jan 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM #1
    citygator

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    The giddy excitement from righties about all the miracles that Trump will deliver on has me harking back to the days of 2016 and all the things Trump said he would accomplish.

    8 years later literally nothing was done. Right wingers will simply point to pre-covid years to distract from this abysmal record and say "See! there was no Covid impact those years." No shit. Trump left with the worse approval record of any modern president up to that time but did provide many laughs and made low IQ people feel like they had a champion with his low IQ speeches and tweets. But please. Let's get excited!!!!

    • Mexico will pay for the wall!
    • We will be at zero by this weekend!
    • I wont have time to play golf!
    • Repeal and replace with BETTER!!
    • Economic growth of 4%!!
    • I will eliminate the federal deficit!
    • I will only hire the best people!
    • I will bring back coal jobs!
    • Lock her UP!!
    • I will end the Opioid crisis!
    • I will cut the cost of college!

    What a Term!
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  2. Jan 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM #2
    citygator

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    CPI should be a green circle but I dont want to upload another version.
     
  3. Jan 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM #3
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    This time will be different.*

















    * Imagine being a grown adult and thinking that. :):):):)
     
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  4. Jan 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM #4
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    14 - 17..playoffs next year...
     
  5. Jan 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM #5
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    Red green color blind giving me fits on this one.
     
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  6. Jan 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM #6
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    after EIGHT years of Obama, Trump came in & spent more. How can you get the bar any lower? &, yet. PRE COVID!!! who does he think he is, Ronald BIG GOV Reagan?
     
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  7. Jan 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM #7
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    we shall see
     
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  8. Jan 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM #8
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    He accomplished the only reason I voted for him in 2016.

    Conservative SCOTUS appointments. And they last more than 4 years
     
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  9. Jan 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM #9
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    And then Biden said hold my beer…
     
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  10. Jan 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM #10
    docspor

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    Biden’s a dem. He promises big gov
     
  11. Jan 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM #11
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    Curious how much of the budget increase was directly in response to Covid, where we shutdown half the country for extended periods of time.

    I’m sure it’s part of both of their spending sprees.
     
  12. Jan 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM #12
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    was talking about year 1…literally right after Obama
     
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  13. Jan 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM #13
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    Trump ran on balancing the budget and added to the deficit every year before Covid. You should know that already.
     
  14. Jan 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM #14
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    Budget deficit by year from 2016-2019:

    2016: 590B
    2017: 670B
    2018: 780B
    2019: 980B

    Trump increased it by 66% before covid. Expect more of the same the next 4 years.
     
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  15. Jan 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM #15
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    Now do Biden post Covid.

    Let’s also compare the budgets of both.
     
  16. Jan 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM #16
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  17. Jan 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM #17
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    WOW!!

    The biggest deficit is 2021 - a Trump budget.

    Actually, that's no surprise. We've known about the spending of Deficit Don for quite a while.




    Also;

    Several months before the 2016 election, Trump pledged he would be able to eliminate the national debt – then around $19 trillion – “over a period of eight years.”
     
  18. Jan 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM #18
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    You people keep using facts to make Donald look bad! Next you'll be telling us that Trump is not the world's best protector of women!
     
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  19. Jan 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM #19
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    Sure. The deficit was 3.13 trillion in Trump's last year (2020) and 1.83 trillion in 2024. Do you honestly think Trump is going to reduce the deficit?
     
  20. Jan 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM #20
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    Yep Covid cause the GOV to spend like mad, the shuttered economy cut tax receipts.

    Funny what a pandemic will do.
     
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